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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES LYONS, ALFRED LYONS, AND GEORGE LYONS, OF MANCHESTER, ENGLAND.'

lTRAY FOR STORING EGGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 655,447, dated August7, 1900.

lApplication filed Moy 13, 1899. Serial No. 716,710. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that we, JAMES LYoNs, ALFRED LYONS, and GEORGE LYONS,subjects of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Manchester, in thecounty of Lancaster, England, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Trays for Storing Eggs, (for which we have madeapplication for patent in Great Britain, No.1,367, dated January 20,1899,) of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to a tray for turning eggs; and it consists in thecombination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, andparticularly pointedroutin the claim.

In the drawings, Figure lisa sectional view of part of a tray. Fig. 2 isa plan view of so much of a trayas is necessary to understand ourinvention.

In the drawings, a is the bottom of the tray, and b the sides. The endsof the tray have openings g, through which a slide a passes, theopenings being at such a distance above the bottom of the tray as tohold the slide a at a slight distance above said bottom. This slide isperforated, as shown at d, in such a manner that the openin gs willreceive the eggs c. The eggs rest upon the bottom of the tray, and thewalls of the openings engage the sides of the eggs, the eggs fittingloosely in the openings. From this it results that when the slide ismoved the eggs will be turned, and thus preserved by preventing the yolkadhering to the sides of the eggs.

WVhat we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,isf In a tray for storing eggs, wherein the eggs are turned throughfrictional contact with the tray-bottom, a rigid slide et mounted in theends and a little above the bottom of the tray, the said slide beingformed with egg-compart-` ments CZ and serving both to keep the eggsapart from each other and to turn same, substantially as described.

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of twowitnesses.

JAMES LYONS. ALFRED LYONS. GEORGE LYONS.

Witnesses:

ALFRED BOSSHAEDT, STANLEY E. BRAMALL.

